Our Team

Shawn is an expert in leveraging advanced technologies to build software solutions that focus on user requirements and solve high impact business problems. Prior to founding dbSeer, Shawn was a co-founder and CTO of Telarix. At Telarix, he architected, developed, and deployed high performance, near real-time event processing, analytics, and optimization solutions that are now deployed at 7 of the top 10 international carriers worldwide. Shawn’s success at building large-scale, industrial systems and his work as a research faculty at Yale University has made him an avid fan of distributed architectures.

He believes recent advances in big data, cloud, and mobile technologies are fundamentally transforming how businesses operate. Shawn obtained his BS from Iowa State University and his PhD from Cornell University.

Mahyar is an expert in business analytics, database optimization, and agile development. Before founding dbSeer, Mahyar led software development at Telarix, where he managed a globally dispersed team and focused on building scalable, high-performance business and network applications for the telecom industry. Prior to Telarix, Mahyar was head of professional services at Logi Analytics, where he oversaw the delivery of business analytics solutions in various industries, including advertising, healthcare, and telecommunications. Before that, Mahyar was the director of development also at Logi Analytics. In this role, he designed and implemented SaaS-based, data discovery and analytic tools. Mahyar holds a bachelor degree in computer science from Azad University in Tehran.

Jalpa has 10+ years of IT experience. Prior to joining dbSeer, Jalpa led the development team at the National Eduction Association, where she led a team of developers, consultants and QA Engineers to build and manage Enterprise Applications. At NEA she rolled out multiple enterprise applications and also assisted in the RFP and evaluation phase for a new membership application. Prior to joining NEA, she was the Development Director at Telarix managing multiple development and customization teams.

She was also overseeing the software development platform team that handled batch processing, performance benchmarking, product installations, upgrades and data warehouse modules. She had also helped establish a production engineering team that managed client operations and deployments. Jalpa has a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Gujarat University in India and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California.